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[31] Some have recognised only two bases. Archedemus1 for instance admits only the conjectural and definitive and refuses to admit the qualitative, since he held that questions of quality take the form of “What is unfair? what is unjust? what is disobedience?” which he terms questions about identity and difference.2

1 Fr. 11, Arnim.

2 i.e. the question may be stated “Does it conform to our conception of injustice or is it something different?” Questions of quality are regarded as questions of definition.

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